Since Golden West College director Tom Amen embarked on his Ahab-like quest to trace the route of Herman Melville's obsessed captain in the classic novel "Moby Dick," audiences have been awaiting the promised outcome on the GWC stage.

Most theater companies take a little time off in the summer to regroup, catch their breath and plan for the upcoming season. Not Costa Mesa's Vanguard University.
The college's regular 2010-11 season is now history, but Vanguard "turns pro" in the summer...

The late playwright Horton Foote influenced the choices of both individual artists who stood above the crowd in local theater in 2011.
Foote wrote the play "A Trip to Bountiful," the movie version of which won its star, Geraldine Page, an Oscar in 1985....

On Sunday, Hollywood celebrates itself and honors its own. All eyes (or most of them anyway) will be on the presentations of the Academy Awards.
But do the Oscars always end up in the right hands? Opinions abound on this topic, and what follows is only...

Actress Lynn Milgrim will step onto the main stage at South Coast Repertory on Friday night as Mrs. Carrie Watts.
To inhabit the role of the protagonist in Horton Foote's "A Trip to Bountiful," Milgrim will don an old-fashioned lavender cotton dress. The...

As a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and a movie that has become a modern classic, Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" has long been an American standard of excellence. Playwright Christopher Sergel's fine stage adaptation continues this tradition.
Condensed into the small Lyceum Theater playing area at Costa Mesa's Vanguard University, this latest examination of courage and bigotry in 1935 Alabama still touches the mind and the heart in equal measure. This time period must be remembered by playgoers who...

Director James Mangold can make a serious film with extra twists for a grown-up audience. His credits include "Walk the Line," "3:10 to Yuma" and the offbeat thriller "Identity." In "Knight and Day" he adds a touch of Alfred Hitchcock and James Bond to his high-energy mix.
He combines action with romantic comedy for a modern version of classic films like "North by Northwest" or "Arabesque." Cary Grant and Gregory Peck play the cool characters at the center of those stories. Tom Cruise does a credible...